Where a board directs a committee of examiners to submit a report to the board, the board shall designate one of the examiners to be chairperson of the committee. Subject to such rules as may be adopted by the board, and to any order of the board, the chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the committee and at all hearings conducted by the committee, and shall direct and supervise the work of the committee, fix the time and place of its meetings and hearings, direct the order of its business, and rule upon the admission of evidence to be considered by the committee; provided, however, that upon the objection of any examiner to an order of the chairperson refusing to recognize any person as an interested person, or to an order excluding any evidence from consideration, the chairperson shall reverse such ruling.
Each examiner shall be present at all times during any hearing conducted by the committee, and each must read all reports proposed to be submitted by any member of the committee; provided, however, that the board may by order direct that a hearing may be had or continued in the absence of one or more examiners on condition that such absent examiner or examiners shall read a transcript of the testimony taken during the examiner’s absence and shall examine or view any other evidence then received, and provided further that the board may at any time direct that any examiner shall cease to act and that the proceeding shall continue as if the examiner had not been appointed or designated.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 95,338.